PROCEEDINGS 



01' 



THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY 



PAPERS READ BEFORE THE ACADEMY 



I. 



PLACE-NAMES AND ANTIQUITIES OF S.E. CORK. 

 By THE REV. PATRICK POWER. 



Read December 11, 1916; Published May 11. 1017. 



Purpose and scope of the survey hereby initiated will bear, and may require, 

 a few words of introductory explanation. This work is the outcome, in parr, 

 of a proposal made, and practically advocated, some time since, by the 

 President of University College, Cork, for a full and systematic study of the 

 archaeology of Cork county. In connexion with the study in question the 

 present writer uudertook — as his portion of the task — to collect the local 

 names, and to note the antiquities of the south-eastern portion of the county. 

 The region scheduled embraces the three baronies of Earrymore, Imokilly, 

 and Kinnataloon, and was apparently, some of it at least, at one period, 

 portion of the Decies. 1 At the Synod of Rathbreasail the western boundary 

 of the Diocese of Lismore was fixed at Cork, whence we may infer that in 

 the early twelfth century the Deisi had extended their territory in that 

 direction. 



The task involved in the proposed survey is by no means easy or light ; 

 it is heavier far than the casual reader dreams, and, in the ordinary course 

 of things, it will take some years to accomplish it. It postulates a personal 

 visit, not only to every townland of the wide area described, but, in nearly 

 every case, to several parts of each townland; it requires the interviewing 

 and cross-examination of hundreds of Irish speakers and other residents ; 



1 Martyr. Gorman, p. 228 ; Martyr. Donegal, pp. xwvii ami 321 ; MacErlean, "Synod 



of Raith Breasail," p. 25, in Archiv. Hibernicum. vol. iii. &c. 



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